Bouncers jailed over assault at Sydney's Ivy

Two bouncers have been sentenced to jail for bashing a patron at Sydney's Ivy nightclub last year.

Cagefighter Emmanouil Ntaras was sentenced in the Downing Centre District Court today to at least 14 months in jail.

Fellow bouncer Jason Mendelow has been sent to prison for at least one year.

But a third bouncer, Paul Fenukitau, avoided going to jail.

His six children were in court this morning as he was instead sentenced to 22 months of community service or home detention.

All three had pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm in company over their attack on Nicholas Barsoum at the Ivy in August last year.

The 19-year-old had been kicked out of the inner-Sydney night spot shortly before.

Security cameras captured vision of Mr Barsoum being repeatedly kicked and punched in the head outside the club.

He was then dragged to the basement, where the attack continued until police and paramedics arrived.

Prominent Sydney lawyer Greg Walsh says the punishments should serve as a warning to those in the security industry.

"I think there's a very important message that security guards have very important responsibility, like law enforcement officers, that they don't take the law in their own hands and they don't use excessive force," he said.

"Because they have very important functions to fulfil to protect the public and not to inflict unnecessary violence against other human beings."